Connecticut man charged with animal cruelty after dog dies in hot car

Published 12:57 pm, Thursday, July 20, 2017

MIDDLETOWN, (AP) >> Police say a man whose dog died after he left it in his car on a hot summer day has been charged with animal cruelty.

Police in Middletown, Connecticut, say it’s the second time a dog belonging to the man died after being left in a car.

Seventy-nine-year-old David Beveridge told police he meant to bring the Labradoodle named Jennie to a pet care center around noon Tuesday before going to work. He said he did not remember until around 2:30 p.m. that the dog was still in the car. Temperatures that day were in the 90s.

Police say records at a veterinary hospital show a poodle mix named Charlie died in May 2014 after Beveridge left it in a car.